Hibernus++: A Self-Calibrating and Adaptive System for Transiently-Powered Embedded Devices

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1968-1980

  Balsamo, Domenico ^a   Weddell, Alex S ^a   Das, Anup ^a   Arreola, Alberto Rodriguez ^a   Brunelli, Davide ^b   Al Hashimi, Bashir M ^a   Merrett, Geoff V ^a   Benini, Luca ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embedded systems; energy harvesting; intermittent supply; low power design; transient computing

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HARDWARE; RESTORATION;

APPLICATION EXECUTION; AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; BALANCE OF ENERGIES; HARDWARE PLATFORM; INTERMITTENT SUPPLY; LOW-POWER DESIGN; SELF-CALIBRATING; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH;

OUTAGES;

EID: 84999274058     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2016.2547919     Document Type: Article

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